Product details

UID	47
Name	Coastal Zones
Acronym	CZ
Description	The Coastal Zones Land Cover/Land Use product is providing a detailed LC/LU dataset for areas along the marine coastline of the EEA39 countries. A 10 km inland buffer zone and the CLC (Corine Land Cover) buffer zone seawards along the coastline define the Area of Interest (AoI) of the CZ mapping. It includes all areas relevant for the Coastal Zones product (estuaries, coastal lowlands, nature reserves). The total covered area on land along all European coastline is approximately 715.000 km². The Coastal Zones LC/LU layer differentiates 71 thematic LC/LU classes. The layers are based on satellite image classification to derive the 2012 and 2018 LC/LU situation. A key element is a visual interpretation and delineation of LC/LU from VHR satellite imagery for the reference years 2012 and 2018.
Note
Status	Operational
Group	LLC Coastal Zones
Area	Europe
Component	Priority Area Monitoring
Service	Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
Entrusted Entities	European Environment Agency Joint Research Centre
Created on	Nov. 6, 2017, 1:53 p.m.
Last updated on	April 8, 2024, 11:51 a.m.

Requirements

UID	Requirement	Level of definition	Relevant for	Criticality	Barriers	Note	Created on	Last updated on
326	Transportation and railway network	Reasonable	Product generation	Essential	Coverage Format	used as auxilliary data	May 3, 2020, 5:42 p.m.	May 15, 2025, 11:44 a.m.
146	Land Cover	Firm	Product generation	Essential	Availability Coverage Update Frequency		May 3, 2020, 10:16 a.m.	Dec. 2, 2025, 11:49 a.m.
144	Administrative Boundaries	Firm	Product generation	Essential	Accuracy Availability		May 3, 2020, 5:32 p.m.	Dec. 18, 2020, 7:48 a.m.
427	Glacier coverage	Firm	Product generation	Desirable	Availability Resolution Update Frequency	additional data source for class 'Glaciers and perpetual snow'	May 6, 2020, 1:47 p.m.	Dec. 14, 2020, 1:51 p.m.
424	Vegetation maps	Reasonable	Supporting exploitation	Desirable	Accuracy Availability Costs Coverage Format Update Frequency	National vegetation maps	May 3, 2020, 5:53 p.m.	Sept. 16, 2021, 12:46 p.m.
218	Topographic maps	Firm	Product generation	Desirable	Accuracy Availability Costs Coverage Timeliness Update Frequency	National topographic maps	May 3, 2020, 5:48 p.m.	June 23, 2022, 12:18 p.m.
182	Hydrography	Firm	Supporting exploitation	Desirable	Accuracy Availability Coverage	as ancillary data	May 7, 2020, 9:50 a.m.	May 7, 2025, 2:27 p.m.
213	Digital Elevation Model	Firm	Product generation	Essential	Accuracy Availability Coverage Resolution		May 3, 2020, 5:35 p.m.	Nov. 27, 2025, 10:59 a.m.
264	Land Cover - Water	Reasonable	Product generation	Essential	Accuracy Availability Coverage Format		May 3, 2020, 5:45 p.m.	June 23, 2022, 12:20 p.m.
426	Soil map	Reasonable	Product generation	Desirable	Availability Resolution	used as additional supporting data, e.g. for identificaiton of sparse vegetation on rocks	May 6, 2020, 12:50 p.m.	Jan. 31, 2023, 3:37 p.m.
145	Habitats, biotopes and protected sites	Reasonable	Supporting exploitation	Desirable	Availability Data policy Update Frequency		Nov. 9, 2020, 10:11 p.m.	June 23, 2022, 12:20 p.m.
487	Land Use	Reasonable	Calibration and validation	Useful	Availability Coverage Update Frequency	Reference data used for the identification and validation of land use classes	June 15, 2021, 12:57 p.m.	Dec. 2, 2025, 12:15 p.m.
428	Land Cover - Wetlands	Reasonable	Product generation	Desirable	Accuracy Coverage Resolution Update Frequency	to support object interpretation and the detection of wetland boundaries	May 6, 2020, 10:15 p.m.	Sept. 16, 2021, 12:36 p.m.
219	Orthoimagery - Very High Resolution - Up-to-date - Homogenous	Firm	Product generation	Useful	Availability Costs Coverage Data policy Timeliness Update Frequency	Potential additional input data source for product generation	Nov. 10, 2020, 12:56 p.m.	Nov. 27, 2025, 3:18 p.m.